Stratton (Cornwall)
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B01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: around the middle part of the hemispherical basin
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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CR01: design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: it appears to be part of the basin stone
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01496STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [re-tooled], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: In the church, next to one of the pillars of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Stratton, Bude EX23 9DP, United Kingdom
Site Location: Cornwall, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A39, just E of Bude, 30-35 km WNW of Launceston
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Truro
Additional Comments: altered font / re-tooled font / modern base
Font Notes:
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Bond (1908) mentions the presence of a tree of possible Eastern inspiration (and animals?) on this font, but the font depicted in Paley (1844) is made of two hemispheres, totally plain except for a rope motif at the "waist" and a torus about half-way down the basin sides. Bond (ibid.) refers also to an archival source related to the font: "In 1558 the churchwardens at Stratton, Cornwall, paid 'for a loke to the vonte, vjd.'" Bond (ibid.) and Cox & Harvey (1907) list this font as Norman. Cox (1912) writes: "Circular font Norm[an], but spoilt by retooling." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font decorated with a rope moulding and zizag or chevron. Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font. Plain, Norman, circular." Noted and illustrated in A snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Stratton.html] [accessed 23 November 2009]. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with an acorn finial; appears modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 393427 5632104
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.830833, -4.513333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 49′ 51″ N, 4° 30′ 48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1558?
Notes: Churchwardens made a payment in 1558 "for a loke to the vonte, vjd" (Bond, 1985 c1908: 289)
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 181, 289
- Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912, p. 218
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 193
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cornwall, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, p. 217
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 79, 80